Fionn MacCumhaill Irish Writer

Mac Cumhaill, Maghnas (pseudonym Fionn ‘Mac Cumhaill’) (1885-1965), novelist; born in the Rosses, Co. Donegal, and educated for a period at UCD, after which he emigrated to America, where he was a professional boxer. He drew on traditional story-telling for both theme and style in six novels,
beginning with ‘Sé Dia an Fear is Fearr (1928), and of which Na Rosa go Bráthach (1939), a rambling tale set in 19th-cent. Ireland, is the best.
Maicín (1946) and a further volume, Gura Slán lem' Óige (1974), are autobiographical.

Na Rosa go Brách, eag. Anraí Mac Giolla Chomhaill. An Gúm, Baile Átha Cliath 1997.
Gura Slán le m'Óige. Oifig an tSoláthair, Baile Átha Cliath 1974.
Is é Dia an Fear is Fearr. Comhlacht Oideachais na hÉireann, gan dáta.
Slán leat, a Mhaicín. An Gúm, Baile Átha Cliath 1998.
An Sean-Fhód. Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teoranta, Baile Átha Cliath 1969.
Iascaire na gCiabhfholt Fionn. Oifig an tSoláthair, Baile Átha Cliath 1955.

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